14 December 2012

"World's Greatest Kisser" (1921)

Paris, Sept 18. – André Brulé,
stage exquisite, has been acclaimed the champion kisser of the world.
By vanquishing 80 aspirants, including Americans, Russians, Italians,
Spanish and French, he won the award from a committee of beauties of the
younger set at Biarritz. In the course of the contest he is said to have turned an unprecedented number of feminine heads...

The osculatory contest was held in the dance hall casino. It was watched by the queen of Spain and an imposing array of Spanish and British royalty. Brule's reward was a diamond scarfpin subscribed by the beauties.

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